Get to Know Yourself and the World via Street Photography

May 22019

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Get to Know Yourself and the World via Street Photography

Hear from our featured middle-school students who have learned the skills of Street Photography as a way to know their world, and the world around them, better.

Location: Annenberg Space for Photography

Presented by:

Featuring student photographers: Persia Coffer, Andrea Maldonado, and Anvaya Pande.

The Los Angeles Center of Photography Boys and Girls Club Photo Program, designed by Julia Dean, is currently partnered with ten Boys and Girls Clubs in Los Angeles County. The program is set up to provide a great time while learning the skills of Street Photography: photographing candids, perceiving decisive moments, how to approach a subject for a portrait, seeing the light. Hear from our featured middle-school students who have learned the skills of Street Photography as a way to know their world, and the world around them, better.

Organizations

LA Center for Photography

The Los Angeles Center of Photography (LACP) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit charitable organization devoted to advancing the skills and increasing the personal enrichment of photographers for all experience levels and ages.

The LACP offers about 150 photography classes, workshops and community events throughout the year while supporting artists through group and individual gallery shows as well as four annual contests and exhibitions.

LACP attracts some of the most well-known and respected photographers in the world, including Cig Harvey, Sam Abell, Greg Gorman, Douglas Kirkland, and Joe McNally.

Actively involved in community outreach, LACP is committed to supporting other nonprofits which aid underserved youth, including the Variety Boys and Girls Club, Spark Program , Hollywood HEART and Pablove Shutterbugs.

We are celebrating the best in street and fine art photography with work created in the classrooms at LACP.

The artists featured have walked the streets as well as the recesses of their imaginations to create stellar imagery that reflect the exciting array of approaches and subject matter that LACP inspires.

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